Title: MalWare Scan Error
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# MalWare Scan Error

 *  Resolved [drsbb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drsbb/)
 * (@drsbb)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-scan-error/)
 * Since the latest update to Sucuri, I’ve received an error message when trying
   to run the standard malware scan. It appears immediately upon starting the scan
   in a banner box at the top of the page.
 * Sucuri: Something went wrong with an API call (unknown action): SSL: certificate
   subject name ‘*.mycloudproxy.com’ does not match target host name ‘sitecheck.
   sucuri.net’
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/)

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 *  [yorman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorman/)
 * (@yorman)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-scan-error/#post-6195459)
 * I fixed this error in the development version of the plugin [1], but it is not
   public yet, so you can opt to install the development version or change the value
   of the option _“API request with SSL”_ to _“Stop peer’s cert verification”_ located
   in the general settings page of the plugin.
 * This will force the plugin to send the HTTP requests to the API service over _“
   http”_ instead of _“https”_, this is not recommended but to really fix the issue
   you will need to contact your hosting provider to make some changes in the server,
   specifically related with the OpenSSL software, and generally they will not allow
   you to do that _(at least that is what I have seen with other clients)_, so just
   follow my instructions to change that option and everything will start working
   correctly again.
 * [1] [https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sucuri-scanner.zip](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/sucuri-scanner.zip)

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 * Last reply from: [yorman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yorman/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-scan-error/#post-6195459)
 * Status: resolved